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[bryanlarsen]

The first AMD v Intel cost Intel $10 million. The second cost $1.25 billion. A third one would be immense.

Also, Intel is operating under a consent decree and FTC supervision until October 29, 2020. The FTC would come down hard on direct violations of the decree.

[rasz → bryanlarsen]

Intel still to this day hasnt paid that $1 billion

https://pcper.com/2016/06/intel-still-hasnt-paid-amd-the-1-2...

and it looks like they finally brib^^convinced right people and have a chance of cancelling it https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/business/intel-eu-antitru...

[bryanlarsen → rasz]

According to those articles it is the EU fine that isn't paid. From what I've heard the US fine is basically what paid for the Zen R&D. Karma.

[ncmncm → bryanlarsen]

Intel put $5B into Itanic, destroyed by Athlon.

But the consent decree is new to me. I guess FTC has been slightly more active than I gave them credit for.